Political Quotes

“in 1822, the Founding Father James Madison wrote: A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A vote for DISCLOSE is a vote to arm the people with the power that knowledge gives, to arm them with the popular information about elections--information necessary to prevent this great popular government of ours from becoming a special interest farce, information necessary to protect this democracy from the tragedy, as John McCain predicted, of scandal that will result. Give the American people the information they need to be their own governors. Vote for DISCLOSE. I yield back the remainder of our time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Republican leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, for 40 straight months we have had unemployment above 8 percent and a debt the size of our economy. Yet our friends in the majority want to get us to pass a bill that everybody from the ACLU to the NRA is opposed to, a bill designed to give the government the information to intimidate people who have the courage to stand up to the government and argue against what it is doing.…”